Mark Knowles and Brian MacPhie were the defending champions but they competed with different partners that year, Knowles with Daniel Nestor and MacPhie with Nenad Zimonjić.
MacPhie and Zimonjić lost in the semifinals to Mahesh Bhupathi and Max Mirnyi.
Knowles and Nestor won in the final 7–6(7–4), 6–7(5–7), 6–4 against Bhupathi and Mirnyi.
The top four seeded teams received byes into the second round.